Our company

  • Alpaca — US-headquartered, global leader in agent-first brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading; serves hundreds of institutions across 40+ countries and 10M+ brokerage accounts.

Your position

  • Senior Software Engineer on the Reference Data team. Build services for Security Master and corporate actions; hands-on backend engineer focused on distributed systems, data modelling and correctness across interconnected services. Design, implement, roll out and support data backbone services; extend reference data to new instruments; build workflows for ingesting third-party information; collaborate with dependent teams; own features end-to-end.

Requirements

  • Must-Haves:
  • • Strong experience building and operating event-driven, distributed backend systems.
  • • Strong database and data-modelling skills with understanding of eventual consistency and data replication.
  • • Excellent system design fundamentals, including API design.
  • • Proficiency in a strongly typed language; willingness to work in Go.

Compensation & benefits

  • • Competitive Salary & Stock Options
  • • Health Benefits
  • • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 and Monthly Stipend: USD $150 via Brex Card